Breaking Hearts, Harts, and Bones at Savage

Shaking hands with Smith Hart, one of the legendary Hart brothers of Calgary, Alberta.

Savage came and went. Here's what the A.V. Club Toronto had to say about my poetic finishing moves:

Dropping elbows and reading poetry at SAVAGE.

''One grounding but apt change of pace was Spencer Gordon’s reading, a graceful but straight list of passed-on lives of professional wrestlers and the tragic ways they ended, from the many sudden car accidents, to the more gruesome case of Chris Benoit. 'It’s actually really difficult to write about wrestling,' said Gordon, 'about those things that you love in that way. I figured that typical approaches to Randy Savage and even wrestling in general among my generation are very ironic, just cheeky, taking the piss—often they don’t understand a lot about it; they only see the extravagant, ridiculous, and even negative elements. It meant something to me, and I wanted to do something that would reflect that meaning instead of just [laughing] more about Slim Jims and bandanas.'''

Read the rest of the A.V. Club's coverage of the evening here.



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